Scott Lowe

AUGUST 12, 2022

For your fix of storage-related links, J Metz has relatively recently published Storage Short Take #47. Edwin Weijdema shares how he uses VMware Fusion 12 on his MacBook Pro (Intel-based, I’m assuming) to run a mobile lab with nested ESXi hypervisors. Programming. Are you ready to give up GitHub ? Virtualization.

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Linux Storage Virtualization Hardware 90

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2016

Today, VMware is expected to talk more about containers, end-user computing, and other topics not covered in yesterday’s general session (which focused heavily on Cross-Cloud Services, VMware’s new set of SaaS-based offerings for multi-cloud management). Preparing the end-user for the mobile-cloud era. That’s a shame.)

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Vmware Open Source Applications Video 60

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

This approach brings widely used enterprise management tools and user interfaces to public cloud environments, enabling consistency of management and smoother data mobility. Together, Dell APEX enables data and workload mobility and operational consistency across environments for seamless management.

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Cloud Dell Intel Agile 121

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2013

This leads to a talk about VMware’s 10 years of innovation, with products and features like ESX, vMotion, DRS, Storage vMotion, and more. She then introduces Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO. As we are moving into the mobile/cloud era, Pat thinks that four trends are shaping this era: social, mobile, cloud, and big data.

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Vmware Virtualization Data Center Storage 63

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Poonen positions Workplace One as the “Switzerland” solution that bridges different kinds of applications (Windows client-server apps, web apps, and mobile apps) with different kinds of devices (Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft). After a brief testimonial from Adidas, Poonen moves into the desktop/mobile portion of his keynote.

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Vmware Applications Windows Mobile 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 25, 2014

The keynote starts with a catchy, jazzy dance/music piece, and then Robin Matlock, Chief Marketing Officer for VMware, takes the stage. VMware is on a voyage of brave transformation itself, and Gelsinger provides examples of VMware’s BYOD efforts and running all of VMware’s SAP ERP efforts on vCloud Air.

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Vmware Hardware Cloud Virtualization 79

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Thus, these services will begin to commoditize, and with the popularity of multicloud, core services such as storage and computing will be pretty much the same from cloud to cloud.” For example, Microsoft’s Power Platform enables the creation of mobile and web apps that can interact with business tools.

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Trends Cloud Oracle Enterprise 143

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 29, 2017

Prior to the keynote, a number of announcements were released; here’s a quick look at a few of them: VMware and AWS Announce Initial Availability of VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware Integrated OpenStack 4.0 Gelsinger welcomes the crowd, and takes a minute to reflect upon his time at CEO of VMware.

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Vmware Cloud IBM Security 60

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 16, 2017

This is my irregularly-published collection of links and articles from around the Internet related to the major data center technologies: networking, hardware, security, cloud computing, applications/OSes, storage, and virtualization. Want to install VMware NSX in your home lab, but concerned about resource utilization? Networking.

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Vmware Storage Network Windows 60

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 10, 2012

He starts out with a review of “the old way” of doing things versus the increasingly-popular “new way” (which often involves BYOD, tablets, mobile devices, etc.). Naturally, VDI is a key part of this effort, and Herrod reviews the improvements that VMware made in the last release of View, version 5.1.

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Vmware Windows Virtualization Applications 109

Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Although I stopped the migration in August 2017, I restarted it in April 2018 when I left VMware to join Heptio. Cloud storage/sync: GNOME offers built-in integration for Google Drive, and I’m still using Dropbox for non-confidential information. Chat/Instant messaging: I continue to use the Slack Linux client and Pidgin.

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Linux Report Vmware Google 60

Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

They recognized that trying to apply desktop computing paradigms to mobile devices wouldn’t work well. iOS wasn’t designed for laptops and workstations; it was designed for mobile devices. OS X wasn’t designed for mobile devices; it was designed for laptops and workstations. Apple and VMware…or Xen?

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Operating Systems Apple Applications Linux 131

Scott Lowe

JANUARY 17, 2020

Guiliano Bertello introduces PowerVCF , a PowerCLI module aimed at interacting with the SDDC Manager and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) stack. (If Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps! Frank Denneman has a nice article aimed at helping readers understand PCIe device to NUMA Node Locality.

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Load Balancer Vmware Windows Cloud 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 1, 2011

As I subtly alluded-to in March, The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Euronext) today launched their Capital Markets Community Platform (CMCP) along with partners EMC and VMware. NYSEs partnered with EMC and VMware to construct the cloud, and VMW has also posted an excellent Blog on the topic. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2).

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Financial Cloud Data Center Vmware 172

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Cloud-native apps, microservices and mobile apps drive revenue with their real-time customer interactions. While big data technologies like Hadoop were used to get large volumes of data into low-cost storage quickly, these efforts often lacked the appropriate data modeling, architecture, governance, and speed needed for real-time success.

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Strategy Data Applications Cloud 106

Scott Lowe

MARCH 10, 2015

Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Here’s a post by Grant Orchard on using VMware NSX’s security groups to protect workloads deployed via vCAC (now vRA). Virtualization.

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Vmware Linux Hardware Software Development 60

Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

The only major things missing from their "Starter Kit" suite they offer are the addition of VMware - not cheap if you choose to purchase it - as well as the addition of a blade (or two) to serve as controllers of the system. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). We were building VMs and remarking at how fast it all went. Marketing.

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Analysis HP Data Center Virtualization 147

Dataconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Examples of hardware virtualization platforms include VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V Operating system-level virtualization : This type of virtualization allows multiple isolated operating systems to run on a single physical server. Both virtual servers can access the same SATA hard drive for storage.

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Virtualization Storage Hardware Disaster Recovery 78

Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Executives in all industries are using digital advances such as analytics, mobility, social media and smart embedded devices as well as improving their use of traditional technologies such as ERP to change customer relationships, internal processes and value propositions.

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Cloud Web Services Hardware Software 70

Storage IO Blog

JUNE 30, 2017

New optional features include support for mobile platforms and book, along with scaling for enterprise as well as cloud environments. The NVMe Express trade group (e.g. nvmexpress.org) announced the completion of NVMe 1.3 specification.

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Data Mobile Groups Cloud 40

Dataconomy

MAY 23, 2023

It enables faster data analysis and decision-making, reduces reliance on the cloud for processing and storage, and minimizes the amount of data that needs to be transmitted over the network. By processing data locally, organizations can reduce bandwidth costs and achieve cost savings in data storage and transfer.

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Industry LAN Analysis Data Center 65

Fountainhead

JANUARY 24, 2011

in order to provide enough performance for customers who were multi-tenant on hardware and storage, you had to make them non-multi-tenant. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Today at Citrix I'm helping others understand opportunities and pathways for mobility and cloud infrastructure. / /. Back during Cloud 1.0,

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Cloud Data Center Virtualization Data 216

Fountainhead

APRIL 7, 2009

The software has always had the ability to provision physical and/or virtual servers with mission-critical levels of availability, including networking, I/O and storage configurations. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Now Egenera has bundled the virtual server provisioning option in at no charge into the core management product.

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Virtualization Dell Data Center Cloud 100

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 22, 2022

A VMware survey found that 73% of large companies are deploying to multi-cloud environments. . VMware Cloud Universal delivers unified compute, storage, networking infrastructure with workload portability across clouds, and across applications. To learn more about VMware Cloud Universal go to. [link]. .

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Cloud Vmware Applications Storage 52

Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Vmware Architecture Applications Storage 65

Dataconomy

APRIL 26, 2023

The company asserts that secure SD-WAN can streamline management across an expanding mobile footprint and that traditional wired internet services must coexist alongside 5G networks. The San Jose-based startup’s principal go-to-market strategy is via its channel partners. Aarna has amassed a total of $3.5

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WAN Wireless Network Cloud 62

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

CloudFoundry is open source software developed by VMware and now part of the Pivotal Initiative, an independent entity funded by VMware and EMC. The framework allows developers to create apps that can run on Amazon Web Services, OpenStack clouds or VMware’s vCloud and vSphere environments. Modular Data Centers. Networking.

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Data Center IBM Data Cloud 197

Sean Daniel

APRIL 26, 2010

If you don’t have extra hardware, Vail installs flawlessly into Hyper-V based environments and one of our MVPS already has a blog post on how to install it into VMWare. Storage Server Essentials. (17). Windows Mobile. (23). Windows Mobile. Storage Server Essentials. What’s new? SBS 2011 Standard. (24).

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Windows Backup SMB Small Business 72

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data. By offloading data storage and optimizing the network, the DPU frees the CPU power for mission-critical applications. Data Center

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Data Center Data Architecture Fractional CTO 126

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

It starts by building upon the core of virtualized infrastructure, made possibe by VMware’s compute, storage, and network virtualization solutions. Somehow, though, this stuff needs to be connected to the end users—via desktop, mobile, content collaboration, and tying it all together with identity management.

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Vmware Applications Network Video 60

Data Center Knowledge

JULY 17, 2013

He has more than 20 years of experience in assisting cloud, storage and data management technology companies as well as cloud service providers to address rapidly expanding Infrastructure-as-a-Service and big data sectors. Many companies have now transitioned to using clouds for access to IT resources such as servers and storage.

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Data Center Cloud Data Applications 203

Fountainhead

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fundamentally, the concept abstracts-away a servers I/O, disk, storage connectivity, and out-of-band controls, making it a stateless entity. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage. Changes to the network or storage meant changing I/O configurations. Issues having to do with I/O, storage connectivity, etc.

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Hardware Data Center Storage Virtualization 100

Virtualized Greek

MARCH 25, 2014

A smartphone takes a PDA, MP3 player and camera and merge them into a mobile phone. The CPU, Storage and in some cases network are collapsing into tightly integrated platforms. Examples include Nutanix on the hardware side and VMware VSAN or EMC ScaleIO on the software side. PC & Server Hardware Virtualization Convergence'

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Storage Hardware Enterprise Enterprise 60

Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is accomplished by pooling and automating network resources, ensuring tenant isolation, maximizing scale/performance, enabling seamless capacity expansion and workload mobility, and minimizing operational complexity. Visit the site for more information on virtualization, servers, storage, and other enterprise technologies.

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Virtualization Network Intel Cloud 60

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In essence, a server’s logical IO is consolidated down to a single (physical) converged network which carries data, storage and KVM traffic. In much the same way that the hypervisor has since been embedded in tools like VMware’s vCenter, IOV can (and has been) embedded with higher-level management tools. Mobile Work. (4).

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Virtualization Data Center Network Storage 157

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). All I/O resources, including storage and network connections, QoS settings, and HA configurations, are contained within that profile. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Marketing. (3).

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Data Center Virtualization Load Balancer Network 113

Fountainhead

MARCH 5, 2009

Players: VMware, Citrix, MSFT, Parallels, etc. But essentially its about converging data, storage, and even out-of-band management information along a single (high bandwidth, low-latency) wire. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Software is abstracted away from the CPU, making management of applications more efficient.

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